Ritsko’s idea earned 19,000 votes, and as the winner, he’ll get a face-to-face meeting with President Obama to present him with the idea. The runners up also will have their ideas incorporated into next year’s budget requests.

“We really appreciate Matthew’s hard work and thinking out of the box on this,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement congratulating Ritsko. “His idea has the potential to save the federal government a considerable amount of money.”

As with previous years, the White House didn’t reveal details of how the “lending library” would be established, how much it would cost to implement and how much money would actually be saved.

And with a drawn-out federal budget process in the last few years, it’s also unclear whether the award-winning ideas are ever implemented.

The award program launched in 2009 in an effort to tout the administration’s budget-cutting focus and to boost morale among the rank and file.